A day after the Yankees had three ejections — including Aaron Boone — the manager hoped his team and the umpires did a better job of staying calm in the future.

And both Boone and Brett Gardner said they have yet to hear from MLB about whether banging a bat on the roof of the dugout is cause for being tossed, but Boone said he would talk to the veteran outfielder about not doing it during tense moments, as he did on Saturday.

“I’ve talked to [Gardner] and continue to talk to him about trying not to escalate situations, especially when there is some contention,” Boone said before the Yankees finished their series against the Indians in The Bronx on Sunday. “Clearly, there seemed to be some sense of [the umpires] looking for that.”

Boone has been tossed four times this season, and Gardner twice.

“I don’t want issues with umpires,” Boone said. “Sometimes there’s gonna be the inevitable disagreements and be some angst here and there. Hopefully everyone can do a better job — us included — of doing our best to diffuse certain situations to keep things from getting escalated, certainly, like they did [Saturday].”

And three of the Yankees’ major incidents have all come with minor league umpires who had been called up for the game behind the plate, but Boone didn’t blame their inexperience for the blowups.

On Saturday, it was Ben May at home plate and Boone praised him — a bit — on Sunday.

“I don’t think Ben handled, necessarily, anything wrong,” Boone said. “And I was never that irate. I was more trying to take the attention off some of our players. I only felt like it was an inning-and-a-half in there where there were some big pitches that didn’t go our way, so I was voicing that. I try to put the attention on myself a little bit. And he was within his rights to probably run me. Unfortunately, it got escalated after that.”

Cameron Maybin, who took issue with a called third strike by May that sparked Saturday’s histrionics, criticized May after Saturday’s game for staring into the dugout.

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“I don’t think he had a short fuse or anything like that,” Boone said. “I thought he tried to diffuse the situation as best he could and unfortunately, it got a little away.”

Phil Cuzzi, who was the first base umpire Saturday and sprinted over to the Yankees’ dugout to eject Gardner and subsequently CC Sabathia, was set to be behind the plate for Sunday’s game.

“To me, the slate is wiped clean,” Boone said of any potential carryover. “We all have a job to do. I always try to be mindful of what I’m saying and be responsible in the way I conduct myself. Sometimes you do a better job than others. I think the umpires do a really good job of being professional, as well, even when there’s been some stuff boiled over.”